Commentary: Slowly but surely, racism is dying

9:03 AM,
May 8, 2014

PRENTISS SMITH

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PRENTISS SMITH

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Racism is an insidious, divisive, and very hurtful thing, but it is not the worse thing in the world. The good news is that racism is dying a slow but sure death.

The fact that some elderly billionaire expresses his true feelings about black people is not really news. It is something that the media can sensationalize and blow out of proportion, but at the end of the day, this was a private conversation that no one should have ever heard.

Does that excuse what he said? No, but Mr. [Donald] Sterling's racist rant is not going to stop one black child from getting an education, stop one ...